Read more about the article What the new revisions to the Code of Canon Law mean for safeguarding
A Latin-English edition of the Code of Canon Law is pictured on a bookshelf. New canon law provisions approved by Pope Francis are expected to help the Catholic Church safeguard against abuse. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

What the new revisions to the Code of Canon Law mean for safeguarding

What the new revisions to the Code of Canon Law mean for safeguarding

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Read more about the article Pope promulgates revised canon law on crimes, punishments
Archbishop Filippo Iannone, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, attends a press conference to discuss revisions to the Code of Canon Law, at the Vatican June 1, 2021. Pope Francis has promulgated a revised section of the Code of Canon Law dealing with crimes and punishments. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope promulgates revised canon law on crimes, punishments

Revisions also address attempted ordination of a woman and a variety of financial crimes

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Read more about the article Pope asks all Catholics to step up commitment to saving creation
Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development speaks at a news conference to unveil a new platform for action based on Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si', at the Vatican May 25, 2021. The dicastery helped close the special year dedicated to Laudato Si' by unveiling initiatives to promote the message and concrete action called for by the encyclical. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope asks all Catholics to step up commitment to saving creation

Platform invites people to bring Ladauto Si’ to life

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Read more about the article Indian priests keep close eye on pandemic in their homeland
A woman mourns outside the mortuary of a COVID-19 hospital in New Delhi May 12, 2021, after seeing the body of her son, who died after contracting the disease. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)

Indian priests keep close eye on pandemic in their homeland

Cases, deaths in India surged during second wave of the pandemic

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Read more about the article Catholic Palestinian gets kidney transplant from slain Jewish Israeli
Arab Catholic Randa Aweis, 58, recovers from a kidney transplant with her daughter Niveen, 26, in Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, May 21, 2021. Aweis received a donor kidney from an Israeli Jew, Yigal Yehoshua, 56, who died after being hit with stones during riots in Lod, Israel. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)

Catholic Palestinian gets kidney transplant from slain Jewish Israeli

Organ recipient uses her case to urge peace in the Holy Land

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Read more about the article Vatican official cautions U.S. bishops on politicians and Communion
Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, attends a news conference at the Vatican in this March 1, 2018, file photo. In a May 7, 2021, letter, Cardinal Ladaria cautioned U.S. bishops about implementing a national policy on Communion for politicians who support "abortion, euthanasia or other moral evils." (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican official cautions U.S. bishops on politicians and Communion

U.S. bishops preparing to address Catholic politicians and ‘the worthiness to receive holy Communion’

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Read more about the article Being a catechist is a vocation, pope says in establishing formal ministry
Michael Ouma, a lay Catholic catechist who serves in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, is pictured in this Feb. 16, 2011, file photo. In a document released May 11, 2021, Pope Francis instituted the "ministry of catechist." (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

Being a catechist is a vocation, pope says in establishing formal ministry

Formal institution into the ministry of catechist signifies that the service is stable, delegated by the bishop, and publicly recognized by the church.

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Read more about the article Pope thanks health care workers, urges equal access to care for all
Pope Francis speaks in a recorded video message to an online health care conference May 8, 2021. Health care must be free from inequality and open to all those who are ill, the pope said in his remarks to the "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul -- Unite to Prevent and Unite to Cure" conference. The conference was organized jointly by the Pontifical Council for Culture, its Science and Faith Foundation and the New York-based Cura Foundation and Stem for Life Foundation. (CNS photo/courtesy Meagher Group)

Pope thanks health care workers, urges equal access to care for all

Pope Francis underlined the importance of the conference uniting philosophical and theological reflection with scientific research, especially in the field of medicine.

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